Early this year, Western Washington-based alt-country band Alex Blum & the Roadside Quartet released their debut full-length album If You’re Even Listening, one that I missed at the time but turns out to be very enjoyable in the second chance. Alex Blum (vocals), songwriter Patrick Storedahl (guitar, keys, backing vocals, percussion), Peter Jansen (guitar), Douglas Blum (bass, backing vocals, percussion) and Ted Clark (drums, percussion, backing vocals) are already back with six new songs that are just as attractive. Each track from the Last Night at the Movies EP is appropriately accompanied by a video with atmospheric film footage. More importantly, each track is equally vibrant and warm, with an uplifting rhythm section, wonderful magnetic vocals and imaginative lyrics. Nostalgic and sympathetic, but above all a genuinely extraordinary soundtrack.
Last Night at the Movies, arranged and produced by Alex Blum and the Roadside Quartet, is out now digitally and on CD through Dig Bee Records.
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